# I'm gonna have to pit all you butt-hurt snowflakes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203 "2017-01-15T03:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/721 "2017-01-26T03:16:53Z")
> [@Mona\_Lott](#): > > This new month of Trump with its 32 days–is poor February going to give up one of its days? Of course it’s going to come out of Black History Month. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/722 "2017-01-26T04:27:52Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > while I continue to enjoy a Trump presidency 😃 Truth be told, I’m rather curious how this will play out, myself. It’s like watching a train wreck from a safe distance. For the people on the train or in its path, well… sucks to be them, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/723 "2017-01-26T04:47:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Of course it’s going to come out of Black History Month. No doubt. But what’s Trump going to do about the white sales usually held in February? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/724 "2017-01-26T13:25:02Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Truth be told, I’m rather curious how this will play out, myself. It’s like watching a train wreck from a safe distance. For the people on the train or in its path, well… sucks to be them, I guess. _Toot toot!_ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/725 "2017-01-26T13:40:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Truth be told, I’m rather curious how this will play out, myself. It’s like watching a train wreck from a safe distance. For the people on the train or in its path, well… sucks to be them, I guess. _Old Donnie stole the handle and the train it won’t stop going, no way to slow down_ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/726 "2017-01-26T13:41:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Truth be told, I’m rather curious how this will play out, myself. It’s like watching a train wreck from a safe distance. For the people on the train or in its path, well… sucks to be them, I guess. It will be the biggest, most beautiful train wreck ever. By the time it’s over you’ll be sick of so much train wrecking. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/727 "2017-01-26T19:20:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, instead you got a guy who is a cheater, corrupt and plutocratic AND rich and famous AND who goes all twitter-petulant when his ass ISN’T kissed. > > Is that… better? Not to me. That’s why I voted for Hillary, but I wish we hadn’t nominated her. There are others that could have beaten Trump but they didn’t run or who got sidelined because Hillary and the “ready for Hillary” crowd insisted it was her turn. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/728 "2017-01-26T19:26:03Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Don’t get me wrong, I understand what you are saying. I just think in the long view, it all will come down to the same thing. Those of us present at the time are going to have a much different view of the event than those reading a “just the facts” footnote in a political history book down the line. I am definitely no Hillary supporter (though I did hold my nose and vote for her, because I found the alternative to be far worse), but as far as the law goes, history will show that she did not, in fact, break it. I agree. And I also held my nose and voted for her but that footnote very well may include all the controversy surrounding her campaign. Like I said, I think the email “scandal” is really make weight criticism that only carried a punch while Hillary was refusing to acknowledge she did anything wrong. As soon as she admitted that she was wrong and that she was sorry, that was the end of the issue for a lot of people. I’m just pushing back against some of ther “ready for Hillary” supporters who can’t make the same admission that Hillary did something wrong. The notion that her crimes are “imaginary” as if there were no facts or evidence to support the notion that she committed a crime is a rewriting of the facts. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/729 "2017-01-26T19:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > …and the “ready for Hillary” crowd insisted it was her turn. They voted for her. She won the votes. Not crazy about her either, by a long shot, but she didn’t cheat. If Bernie couldn’t gather enough votes to be nominated, how can we figure he would gather enough to win? The “bed-hair” vote? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/730 "2017-01-26T19:29:28Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Yep. The three days that will live in infamy… > Dec. 7th, 1941 > Nov. 11th, 2001 > Nov. 8th, 2016 > > Years from now, they’ll argue over which date was the most catastrophic to the nation. I call bullshit. Trump as bad as he is, and as embarassing as he is almost certain to be, he has not invaded a country by lying to America and telling us that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, that he might nuke us or kill us with anthrax. November 8, 2016 is embarassing but not infamous. Not yet. Trump has not yet done anything that any other Republican wouldn’t do except be really embarassing. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/731 "2017-01-26T23:54:02Z")
It’s only his first week. But that was still long enough for him to hint at going back into Iraq. [‘Had we taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS’](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/trump-oil-isis-iraq/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/732 "2017-01-27T00:06:20Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I call bullshit. Trump as bad as he is, and as embarassing as he is almost certain to be, he has not invaded a country by lying to America and telling us that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, that he might nuke us or kill us with anthrax. > > November 8, 2016 is embarassing but not infamous. Not yet. Trump has not yet done anything that any other Republican wouldn’t do except be really embarassing. You are really delusional. I get that you want to make it honorable to be a republican. But that horse may have left the barn. He has only been in a week, and you are talking like he has a track record! He does have one: He has done more to piss on democracy and the electorate in a few months as PE and a week as potus, than anyone, in my lifetime anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/733 "2017-01-27T00:37:43Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I call bullshit. Trump as bad as he is, and as embarassing as he is almost certain to be, he has not invaded a country by lying to America Geez, give the man time! I know that he’s racked up an impressively horrendous farrago of fiascoes in his first week, but still getting warmed up for the _real_ debacles… > [@](#): > > Trump has not yet done anything that any other Republican wouldn’t do except be really embarassing. That performance of _Our American Cousin_ did not do anything that any other play wouldn’t do except be a real headache. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/734 "2017-01-27T01:16:20Z")
A bit [more evidence](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html), if any were needed, confirming the identity of the King of the Butt-Hurt Snowflakes: > [@](#): > > On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him. > > In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. The president believed that the photos might prove that the media had lied in reporting that attendance had been no better than average… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/735 "2017-01-27T01:58:31Z")
I gotta wonder if he was thinking that the people over there at the Park Service had the smoking gub photos, knew they had the goods, but weren’t going to tell him? “OK, guys, give it up. I know you got the real pictures over there, and I want 'em! Now!” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/736 "2017-01-27T02:07:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I gotta wonder if he was thinking that the people over there at the Park Service had the smoking gub photos, knew they had the goods, but weren’t going to tell him? > > “OK, guys, give it up. I know you got the real pictures over there, and I want 'em! Now!” Too bad the Park Service didn’t have some doctored photos showing even fewer people. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/737 "2017-01-27T12:22:28Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I gotta wonder if he was thinking that the people over there at the Park Service had the smoking gub photos, knew they had the goods, but weren’t going to tell him? “Trump also asked Reynolds who had a duplicate key to the food locker, vowing to find out who had eaten the missing strawberries.” ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/738 "2017-01-27T20:26:55Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > You are really delusional. I get that you want to make it honorable to be a republican. But that horse may have left the barn. Honorable Republicans exist as do honorable Democrats but generally speaking, partisans are all assholes. > [@](#): > > He has only been in a week, and you are talking like he has a track record! So are you. > [@](#): > > He does have one: He has done more to piss on democracy and the electorate in a few months as PE and a week as potus, than anyone, in my lifetime anyway. More than a President that started a war in Iraq by tricking the country into thinking that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 and that he was going to nuke us or kill us with anthrax? More than a President that interfered with peace negotiations to stop the Vietnam war that ended up costing us almost 30,000 ADDITIONAL dead American soldiers and over 100,000 additional wounded soldiers? (assuming that the peace talks would have succeeded absent Nixon’s meddling) These are very high hurdles that have been set by Trump’s Republican predecessors. It doesn’t mean he’s not bad, because he is, it means that the same hyperbole that immunized much of America from warning bells being rung about Trump are now being used to make Trump the “worst president ever” even though he hasn’t done very much yet. The left has a credibility problem and screaming wolf at the top of your lungs is doing nothing to repair that credibility. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/739 "2017-01-27T20:30:39Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Geez, give the man time! I know that he’s racked up an impressively horrendous farrago of fiascoes in his first week, but still getting warmed up for the _real_ debacles… Yes I fully expect that Trump will do something horrendoous. That is why many of us voted for Hillary despite her flaws. But America has spoken and America is willing to wager that Trump WON’T do something horrendous. So until he does, it just sounds like bellyaching to act like he has already done horrible things. > [@](#): > > That performance of _Our American Cousin_ did not do anything that any other play wouldn’t do except be a real headache. Was the play somehow responsible for that horrible headache? The fact of the matter is that Trump has not done anything that run of the mill republicans would find objectionable other than the embarassment he is causing all of us. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/740 "2017-01-27T20:35:29Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > …The left has a credibility problem and screaming wolf at the top of your lungs is doing nothing to repair that credibility. You offer us evidence of disastrous and stupid Republican decisions, and then tell us the real problem is the left talking about it too much? Too loud? Too…_what_? Just as you say, thousands of lives squandered. We should have responded with a “tsk! tsk!”? How about an “Oh, dear me!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203.md?page=38)